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Nonetheless, the tensions surfacing last week reflect strong popular opposition across Europe that won't necessarily fade away even if reluctant governments eventually opt to go along with the world's superpower. Here's a dissection of allied anxieties...
...money.” Using the word “average” to describe a mean tax decrease is deceiving. If the richest taxpayers get tremendous tax breaks, this increases the mean value, making the benefits to poor Americans look larger. The median tax decrease would better reflect the benefit to the “average American,” and would surely be significantly lower...
...that concerns all people; we cannot sit silently by while tens of millions of our fellow human beings live in conditions of starvation, psychological trauma and unimaginable violence. Let us take some time out of our busy Harvard schedules to raise campus awareness of this issue. Then, as we reflect this month on the progress that has been made in the struggle for racial equality for all peoples, we can honor the memory of earlier abolitionists by carrying on their work right here, right...
...clear principles, alas, is not a guarantee of sound policy. But as we all instinctively know, they are just what you need in a friend - or an ally. And that is why, as the President choppers in to Camp David this week, Bush could do worse than reflect that he is a very lucky...
...refused to cede control, fending off takeover bids from Ford Motors and others. Always convinced that his own fortunes and the country's were inextricably linked, Agnelli once noted: "In a country the size of Italy, a company the size of Fiat has a certain pulling power, which can reflect itself in certain things that are done in the country." Agnelli's business losses were compounded by personal ones. A year after he had chosen his nephew Giovanni Alberto to be his heir at Fiat's helm, the 33-year-old died of cancer, in 1997. Three years later, Gianni...